January 26, 1878

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Features

The Berryman Patent Feed Water Heater

Successful Progress of the Great Jetties

Unscientific Scientists

A New System of Armor Plating Needed

A Remarkable and Disastrous Explosion

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The American Exhibit at the Paris Exposition

Government Tests of Magazine Guns

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Utilizations of the Goose Quill

Radial Drilling Machine

Communications

Improved Ore Crusher and Pulverizer

Fisher's Torpedo Guard

The No. 10 Bolt Cutter and Nut Tapper

Chapell's Pipe Coupling

A Celebrated Short-Horned Cow

Boland's Improved Kneading Machine

The Reproduction of Musical Tones by Electro-Magnetism

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Business and Personal

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

Patents

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